Gadam Olabury: Fran's INCREDIBLE usage

[libradawg]

Even if this were a video game where an expert player had 2 talented Bigs he wanted to keep fresh, I don't think this could be duplicated. When I noticed this I began to think that not only did Fran want to distribute the minutes between his two Centers equally, but he thought that it was going to somehow help them go from cupcake OOC to rigorous B1G competition with little to any dropoff. I get the feeling he wanted the minutes, offensive roles and especially the fouls distributed evenly. In 13 games played OOC and 11 games played in B1G Conference action, his Centers combined to do:

OOC PPG- 12.3
B1G PPG- 13.1

OOC RPG- 9.6
B1G RPG- 9.2

OOC BLK- 2.2
B1G BLK- 1.8

OOC FG- 46%
B1G FG- 58%

OOC FT- 74%
B1G FT- 69%

MPG OOC- 33.3
MPG B1G- 32 exactly

Fouls OOC- 4.8
Fouls B1G- 4.7

WTF! The negligible .4 loss in REB and BLK are canceled out EXACTLY by the .8 PPG increase. But did the OOC help prepare him to distribute their roles as one singular, productive Center when B1G teams came calling?

Olaseni- 41 FGA, Woodbury- 40. Olaseni 28 fouls, Woodbury 26. Olaseni 174 minutes, Woodbury 178.

There's no way this in an accident. Fran made his most difficult lineup decision by not making a decision at all, he just simply mapped it to perfection. No 7-footer could survive this style or tempo, and here's Fran McCaffery getting production from his Center position worthy of ONE MORE comparison I found, ummmmm, *notable*:

Gadam Olabury- 13.1 PPG, 9.2 REB, 1.8 BLK, 58% FG, 69% FT in 32 minutes
Aaron White- 13.2 PPG, 6.9 REB, 1.9 AST, 52% FG, 81% FT in 30.5 minutes

 

[UncleHawk]

Even if this were a video game where an expert player had 2 talented Bigs he wanted to keep fresh, I don't think this could be duplicated. When I noticed this I began to think that not only did Fran want to distribute the minutes between his two Centers equally, but he thought that it was going to somehow help them go from cupcake OOC to rigorous B1G competition with little to any dropoff. I get the feeling he wanted the minutes, offensive roles and especially the fouls distributed evenly. In 13 games played OOC and 11 games played in B1G Conference action, his Centers combined to do:

OOC PPG- 12.3
B1G PPG- 13.1

OOC RPG- 9.6
B1G RPG- 9.2

OOC BLK- 2.2
B1G BLK- 1.8

OOC FG- 46%
B1G FG- 58%

OOC FT- 74%
B1G FT- 69%

MPG OOC- 33.3
MPG B1G- 32 exactly

Fouls OOC- 4.8
Fouls B1G- 4.7

WTF! The negligible .4 loss in REB and BLK are canceled out EXACTLY by the .8 PPG increase. But did the OOC help prepare him to distribute their roles as one singular, productive Center when B1G teams came calling?

Olaseni- 41 FGA, Woodbury- 40. Olaseni 28 fouls, Woodbury 26. Olaseni 174 minutes, Woodbury 178.

There's no way this in an accident. Fran made his most difficult lineup decision by not making a decision at all, he just simply mapped it to perfection. No 7-footer could survive this style or tempo, and here's Fran McCaffery getting production from his Center position worthy of ONE MORE comparison I found, ummmmm, *notable*:

Gadam Olabury- 13.1 PPG, 9.2 REB, 1.8 BLK, 58% FG, 69% FT in 32 minutes
Aaron White- 13.2 PPG, 6.9 REB, 1.9 AST, 52% FG, 81% FT in 30.5 minutes

Yeah, that Gadam is quite a guy. All of East Sioux London must be proud.
Nice stat work. It makes it pretty obvious how Fran is using Gadam. It also must make it easier to map out his deep rotation when Fran thinks of 2 players as one guy. I think that they become two guys next year though. They might become too good not to use both on the floor at the same time occasionally.

 

[1hawkeye1]

Fran has stated as much. This is no revelation.

 

[biasedHAWKEYE]

He's good, but he's not Adabriel Woodaseni.

 

[libradawg]

Fran has stated as much. This is no revelation.

Fran has stated he will use both often. Nobody thought that this deep into the season you could add all their minutes, fouls and FG attempts and end up at Woodbury leading that entire total by 1 single tick. I don't remember Fran saying anything about our C position virtually matching Aaron White's production. I know that because I still don't hear laughter echoing through the freezing Iowa air right now.